"We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them."

"The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots."

"The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men."

"We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves."

"Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read."

"The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever."

"He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed."

"We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert."

"It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered."

"There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him."

"Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you."

"Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way."

"When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all."

"It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth."

"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

"A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world."

"Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to Christ's prayer. A good old divine remarks, "Many times Jesus and His people pull against one another in prayer. You bend your knee in prayer and say 'Father, I will that Thy saints be with me where I am'; Christ says, 'Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am."

"For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be spared the humiliation which springs from the truth! The sweet red apples of self-esteem are deadly poison; who would wish to be destroyed thereby? The bitter fruits of self-knowledge are always healthful, especially if washed down with the waters of repentance, and sweetened with a draught from the wells of salvation; he who loves his own soul will not despise them."

"When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within."

"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."

"Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom."

"It is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them."

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

"O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it."

"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."

"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."

"Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it."

"They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meekness about to die; but my heart has a deeper and more bitter cause to mourn. My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify Him! Crucify Him! and laid the cross upon His gracious shoulders. His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity: but my having been His murderer, is more, infinitely more, grief than one poor fountain of tears can express."

"Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren."

"It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts."

"God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels."

"To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly."

"Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness."

"If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life."

"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused."

"The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds."

"Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man."

"Weak hearts will be strengthened, and drooping saints will be revived as they listen to our "songs of deliverance." Their doubts and fears will be rebuked, as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs."

"If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer."

"The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day."

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

"A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy."

"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."

"A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show."

"One of these days you who are now a 'babe' in Christ shall be a 'father' in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not as the wages of work, or as the product of your own energy."

"Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them."

"A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend him out of love to himself are his own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in thee...!"

"No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary."